Quotes About Beecher

Beecher described slavery as an 'organic sin,' by which he meant that a sing that permeates the body politic so completely that it cannot be cured by targeted excision but must be overwhelmed with an infusion of love.

Margaret Fuller, America's first female public intellectual and a contemporary of Beecher, was her antithesis. In 1840, Fuller became editor of the era's premier highbrow magazine, The Dial. She was then thirty years old.

There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

Our earthly loves are but so many silver steps leading us up to the great golden love of God.

When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that it may the better digest its selfishness.

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

The Church is not a gallery for the better exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Of all earthly music, that which reaches the farthest into heaven is the beating of a loving heart.